Zvornik police station shooting

The Republika Srpska interior ministry will sign a new cooperation agreement with the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) on Wednesday after strong international criticism of the Serb authorities' decision last week to cut ties and ban the state-level police body from the entity.

Security is high in Bosnia surrounding the visit of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic who was expected in Sarajevo on Tuesday.

He is arriving with a delegation of members of the Serbian government who will participate in a joint session with Bosnia's Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

The Serb Republic (RS) police have prevented a terrorist attack in Janja, near Bijeljina, the Srna agency was told at the Public Security Center in Bijeljina.

Janja is also some 40 kilometers away from the town of Zvornik, where a terrorist attack was carried out earlier this year against a police station, during which an officer was killed.

Parents of some 130 Bosniak children from a primary school in Krizevici near the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik have joined a schools boycott in a dispute over the name of their language.

Pupils remained outside class as protests grew against the decision of the Republika Srpska government to rename the Bosnian language "Bosniak".

The Macedonian police said they have launched a large-scale operation in several towns including the capital aimed at detaining suspected Islamist radicals.

Bosnia's House of Representatives adopted an official statement about the recent attack on a police station in the eastern town of Zvornik after almost a day of ethnically-charged debates.

On Thursday evening, MPs adopted a conclusion condemning the attack on Zvornik police station as a terrorist act.

A week after the terrorist attack on a police station in the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, police in Republika Srpska carried out a major operation aimed at identifying and neutralizing possible terrorist threats coming from radical Islamic groups.

The State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, told Balkan Insight on Monday that it has received information from the Intelligence-Security Agency, OSA, about the possibility of new attacks by militants in the wake of last week's shooting. 

Three persons arrested over Zvornik attack

Zvornik -- Three persons were arrested and questioned by the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) of Bosnia-Herzegovina in connection with the Zvornik attack.

The terrorist attack on a police station in this town in the Serb entity (RS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina took place on Monday, April 27.

Family members, as well as hundreds of citizens and officials gathered on Wednesday in the village of Karakaj near Zvornik to bury Dragan Djuric, a Bosnian Serb policeman killed on Monday in an attack on the police station in the eastern town of Zvornik.